Yeah smarty pants, as you have rightly guessed from the title of the post, this is related to the hit HBO TV series we all love- “Game Of Thrones”- Are you happy? Can we move on now?
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So I had this awesome idea (we can agree to disagree, but it wouldn’t matter what you think because the idea would still be awesome regardless) of drawing a parallel between the houses in the hit HBO series Game of Thrones and the hit football series Barclays Premier League (see? I told you it was awesome). 
Without further ado, let’s get right to it.
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Chelsea, House Lannister: Surely it’s not hard to imagine why they would be considered so. The Lannisters are easily one of the most hated families in the show, they sure would be nothing without Tywin Lannister’s (Abrahimovich) money.
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Geoffrey would fit right in as a Chelsea fan I would imagine, not hard to picture him being a racist tw*t. I mean, this family has incest, blood feud and Cercei could just as easily be Jose Mourinho.
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Manchester City, House Tyrell: Given their unlimited funds and general likability, this seems like a perfect fit. Plus, they killed the worst of the Lannisters on and off the screen (3-0 mauling of Chelsea and the death of Geoffrey anyone?).
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I believe most fans, with the exception of their neighbouring rivals Manchester United, would always rather the Tyrells sit on the throne rather than say, the Lannisters or Baratheons.
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Arsenal, House Stark: Honour, financial limitations, fighting against all odds to do the right thing, dithering, injury crisis, all of this easily makes Arsenal the undisputed Kings of the North who never know peace. The family we all secretly root for but always know that some shit is going to happen to them.
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The red wedding at the hands of the Lannisters two seasons ago comes to mind, the death of a Snow that occurred at the end of last season (Danny Welbeck). Really not that difficult to picture Wenger as Ned Stark – ever stubborn, ever honourable. We can only hope that George R. R. Martin has a happy ending planned for them this season.
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[gap height=”15″]Manchester United, House Targaryen: The pulling factor for this analogy was simple – Loius Van Gaal the Mad King. I mean they have dragons (great commercial sponsorship/red devil/the devil in the bible is called the dragon as well so…) and as such believe they can do whatever they want. What they forget is that the Mad King brought about the downfall of the family itself, so maybe history is about to repeat it self. *twiddling me thumbs and whistling to meself*
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Or if you’d rather another analogy. After the death of the Mad King (Sir Alex’s retirement) the family have been unable to rise to the occasion.
In anyways, House Targaryen are struggling towards the sidewalks of the has-beens.
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Liverpool, House Baratheon: The Baratheon family line is quite simply, as dead as dead can be, as Liverpool’s title hopes since the inception of the BPL.
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Given that they reigned during the first season, for a few episodes and have since been done nothing for us to regard them as proper contenders except that one season where everything was going their way until Gerrard slipped, and now they are nothing; dead all of them! This is a family that has a man who killed his brother and sacrificed his daughter to sit on a throne. Peasants!
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Tottenham, Brothers of The Nightswatch: Sh*t. Sh*t. Sh*t. No further explanations required.
t. No further explanations required.If you have alternate analogies to give, I’d love to hear them. Drop me a line on twitter @gillianbaci or post in the comment section.
